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commit 01e20b664f808a4f3048ca3f930911fd257209bd upstream.
In `ni_find_route_source()`, `tables->route_values` gets dereferenced.
However it is possible that `tables->route_values` is `NULL`, leading to
a null pointer dereference. `tables->route_values` will be `NULL` if
the call to `ni_assign_device_routes()` during board initialization
returned an error due to missing device family routing information or
missing board-specific routing information. For example, there is
currently no board-specific routing information provided for the
PCIe-6251 board and several other boards, so those are affected by this
bug.
The bug is triggered when `ni_find_route_source()` is called via
`ni_check_trigger_arg()` or `ni_check_trigger_arg_roffs()` when checking
the arguments for setting up asynchronous commands. Fix it by returning
`-EINVAL` if `tables->route_values` is `NULL`.
Even with this fix, setting up asynchronous commands to use external
trigger sources for boards with missing routing information will still
fail gracefully. Since `ni_find_route_source()` only depends on the
device family routing information, it would be better if that was made
available even if the board-specific routing information is missing.
That will be addressed by another patch.
Fixes: 4bb90c87abbe ("staging: comedi: add interface to ni routing table information")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.20+
Cc: Spencer E. Olson <olsonse@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200114182532.132058-2-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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